‘We are killing people’: How technology has made your car ‘a candy store of distraction’
tag > Technology
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“Is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.“ - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The ‘Wrong’ Turning Brings on the ‘Fourth Turning’ - by Alastair Crooke - "If we determine to imagine the world as machine, then ‘reality’ will present itself as a machine"
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"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." - Bernard Avishai
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"Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions." - Thomas Sowell
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Armies of trendy business & design people will sell you "technological progress", with out even mentioning the downsides. It's disingenuous. Every augmentation leads to amputation. No free lunch.
Escape. - Art by John Holcroft.
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"As a 'process of exteriorization,' technics is the pursuit of life by means other than life" . - Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time
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"If you think technology will solve your problems then you don't understand technology - AND you don't understand your problems" - Laurie Anderson at Hirshhorn
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Bluetooth: Origins of the name
Bluetooth is named after the Danish King Harald 'Bluetooth' Gormsson, who had a dead tooth. The Bluetooth logo uses Viking runes representing the H and B of his name. He united the 10thC Danish tribes, which is why his name got used for a unifying tech.
